K7  on March 3rd, 2009

Great work.We will contribute too.K7

sanjeev gupta  on March 10th, 2009

Hello Anshu,
congrats for creating this nice blog. plz do publicize it widely.
i wonder if you could raise the issue of no benefit of Post MD senior residency in medical institutions.
i presume you are aware of this issue…

George  on June 10th, 2009

Hi Anshu,

Great blog on medical education! I have a question for you. Are MDs from India emigrating to the US (like they did in the 1970s) or are they deciding to stay in India?

Dr.Anshu  on June 10th, 2009

Thanks George. I don’t think the numbers are as high as before. But yes, emigrating to the US is a top choice still.

George  on June 10th, 2009

Interesting to see how medicine in the US is still insulated from the woes of the economy. I understand that emigration for engineering/financial services has slowly decreased.
I am currently a Hand fellow in Boston, and have a cousin in India interested in medicine. I found the multiple choice question article on your site very interesting. Difficult to assess how good a doctor is based on a multiple choice question. One does not get choices in real life situations. We have three licensing exams here: USMLE step 1,2, and 3. What type of examinations does India have with regards to licensing? Also, are they similar to the USMLE in the sense that students are overwhelmed with the amount of material they have to remember from their first two years of medical school? Aside from anatomy, I’ve forgotten quite a bit of material from medical school (histo/biochem/biostatistics etc).

Dr Amol Hartalkar  on June 11th, 2009

Hello Madam, Hope you would recognize me (PG from dept of medicine, under Prof. Jajoo) Recently read about FAIMER while searching for medical education & research program / fellowships. Expecting your expert guidance for the same. Also interested in knowing what is PSG / GSMC / CMCL in FAIMER intro about various fellows, since few of our college alumnies have already completed it. You can forward such details on my Email. Thanks.

ashish1875  on July 18th, 2009

I am currently a Research faculty with UMBC in US. I am a trained physician from India and obtained my MPH from Boston University and is also pursuing my PhD Public health Informatics. I think this is agreat blog and can be used to establish a motivated team to do a small public health education program and publish its findings Any thoughts?

CA Sanjay Khare  on September 24th, 2009

Opening a hospital and medical college even a commercially viable for the government. It attract foreigners for treatment in India and for getting education and of course education of India is good so we will have good response across the world. Even we can make our country like a medical hub. It will not only support our economy but people of the country will get relief which shall be the primary object of the country.

CA Sanjay Khare, Raipur  on September 24th, 2009

In south and maharashtra there r some colleges but fees r very high. No middle or lower class family can afford such a cost. The reason of more costly education is less competition in this field. If more colleges will come, cost will become less and more people will get benefit specially middle class people who may think for their child get admission and serve the country so that moral values will come in the profession.

The parameter of entry in the medical college for education must not be only brilliancy but dedication (Sewabhawna) and honesty should also be judge. Some time average students r more loyal and honest towards the work.

drneelesh  on November 3rd, 2009

Hi,
Good attempt.
What are your views on compulsory CME in India?

Rgds,
Neel.

ihid  on December 17th, 2009

Hi, I would like to discuss something off this forum. Do you have an email address I could contact you on please?

If you would like to email me, mine is jez.walkerATgmail.com.

Thank you!

sanjaydewal79  on January 22nd, 2010

This is good idea, but the originator has kept quiet after saying it gives him/her a platform to speak his/her mind. What prompted u to start the blog, please come out. Secondly reverse brain drain is possible only after degrees/qualifications and experience possessed by our NRI brethrens is given due recognition in this country. And that is possible only when MCI is sensitised for this task rather than encouraging politically motivated idea of Dr Ketan Desai to produce quacks in the name of rural doctors with 3 year degree BRMS. It is the same Ketan desai who was dead opposed to the idea of PG in Rural MS and MD floated by some well meaning eminent doctors in the country and an earlier proposal of rural practitioners and now he is bent upon producing 3year degree BRMS. Any voices against it please come forward and take up this issue with PM who is very sensitive to such corrupt issues.

doctorrao  on January 30th, 2010

Medical teachers in India to respond on the issue of New amendments passed by Medical council of India for implementing to Post gradate students from 2010 that every post graduate should publish a Paper of their thesis . please count how many journals are there in this country how many postgraduates are produced. This… will certainly encourages the manipulative practices before one is qualified. The race to publish papers in a poor country like us increases the costs of laboratory tests, for the sake of publication I request all the teachers who have have sense of concern to the poor the plight of our patients to respond to my comments.

sanjaydewal79  on January 30th, 2010

Who gave you the idea to believe that all the publications will be original. there are already pg students who after paying huge amount for admission come only for getting attendance and qualification-not the knowledge. They just want to earn money. One Radiology student travels in Ferrari and openly says he is only for the MD and will open centres all over India!! Go to any area surrounding university and get papers/projects on any subject!! There was a lady senior level who obtained Ph.D.in Biochemistry by never ever visiting lab and she is very close to important influential people who matter in medical education. how do you like it? So publishing papers is not a difficult task at all. Har shaakh pe ullu baitha hai, anjaame gulistan kya hoga?!!!

doctorrao  on February 1st, 2010

My friend it is true I know a very rich Microbiologist now she is a professor, she has not taken a class and become Professor and now awarding MD degrees Money can make many things, I am crucified because I talk truth, Till now we had MBBS quacks, now with privatization we will have have more PG quacks

sanjaydewal79  on February 3rd, 2010

Dr Rao, what are you talking? Dr Ketan Desai who has never entered class room, who has hardly operated, but is Prof and HOD of Urology in Med Coll Ahmadabad!! Now as elected unopposed President MCI, he who a few years ago had totally opposed rural medical course both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, is proposing the same in the name of NRHM and is going to give approval to 3 year degree course BRMS to produce “QUACKS, QUACKS and QUACKS”. Not only this once member of MCI Dr GP Dutta of Calcutta an MLA also had written extensively on rural medicine and mooted the idea of some kind of training, that time Dr Ketan desai vehemently opposed it and put it in the dustbin, now he is himself taking the credit for crusading the BRMS qualification, and producing quacks. He is even calling almost 1000 people for a conference and only about 300 will attend and he will get a legal sanction to this idea. You ses he is going to reflect himself as good samaritan for medical education and health of indian rurals. How do you like it? Can you take up this to soem level may be PMO or some investigative agency, because at this time I donot want to be another Manjunath or Satyendra Dubey. Since u have spoken truth and suffering ,so are many more.he has sacrificed one very sincere and honest officer in MCI and this poor fellow is so helpless and under depression that his thought process is badly affected and he is unable to think what is good for him and what is not. He is in dire need of emotional support na dis suffering because he was loyal and truthful to the job assigned to him. I appreciate your truthfulness. Sanjay dewal, Bhopal

sanjaydewal79  on February 3rd, 2010

Dr Anshu can you leave your contact no. on this blog of yours? some one needs your frank and sincere help.

doctorrao  on February 4th, 2010

The great ideas come from great people who get frustrated with power and ill gotten wealth. and doing some funny things. Why we should create BRMS Doctors as we have sufficient quacks and cheats in the country surviving with valid MCI recognized degrees. I feel it is not correct to create some funny Doctors with improper training making the teachers >65 years to train them, we know what is happening with the many private Medical colleges, a good rehabilitation centers for Old Docs who neither teach and rob the ill-gotten money in the private medical colleges. Please pray for the rural people

sanjay dewal  on February 8th, 2010

Dr Rao,
I am convinced that it is only you who is following the blog, not even the original writer of this blog!!! Now touching upon the BRMS-alas all the rural population is guinea pigs. Are these half baked persons going to be any better than those poor chaps who spent lakhs on their medical education abroad but because of high headedness of one person in MCI, the NBE exam is so tough that even he himself will fail in these tests. They are any day better than BRMS, and mind you thay are willing to work in rural areas compared to our ‘elite’ coming from medical colleges in India. This man who has been in saddle in MCI since 1996, even when he was out because of court orders , had been vehemently opposing the idea of MS in Rural surgery and idea of Rural Doctors earlier, now the sudden change is very obviously because of some kind of settlements at various levels-need not be defined, every one is wise to decipher it. If not leave ur phone number you will be informed.Medical men and women rise above vested interests and curb the menace of BRMS which I understand has been legitimised by calling a conference of about 300 deans/principals of medical colleges in India and they come eat, drink and not even nod but they put their attendance to a large—conference. Such is shameful affairs in this country, these deans/principlas are afraid of wrath of those who are in the saddle in MCI and keep quiet so as to have vested intersts of their own colleges. Where are we leading to in the retrospective manner to the patal lok-doomesday is nearing in medical fields also.Not even a single doctor out of 7lakh in the country has guts to come out in the open, every one is scared to become satyendra dubey or a manjunath.
sanjaydewal
bhopal

doctorrao  on February 9th, 2010

Dear Sanjaydewal
I appreciate your efforts to talk truth however we are afraid to talk the truth this medical profession is ruined by our friends in profession no one to blame. people in power can do anything and get away this is the reason India has become highly corrupt even morally. However with passing years I realize that there is no use fighting, as life is a retribution the bad and good we do is certain to come back to us in multiple forms this is kaliyuga

Dr. Lawrence Kindo  on February 15th, 2010

Great blog here. I would love to contribute to it and also request guest posts on my blog, http://www.medicalisland.net. I am a medical graduate from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, currently practising in North-Eastern India. I love writing and discussing hot topics of common interest. I love what Dr. Anshu has done here and I will stand up to support her efforts.

Cheers guys!

doctorrao  on March 30th, 2010

The Medical profession in India is going through a funny stage, I have come cross across some funny professors they talk foolish things and convert their stupid ideas into great research ideas and rub on every body and fool the society and thrive as great intellectuals shall be nominate them for Nobel prize

doctorrao  on April 4th, 2010

It is a good idea to bring Biometry for all the teachers shown on rolls to MCI I have been associated with private medical colleges for several year, the great nuisance to private medical colleges is part time teachers( those who are on roles for salary and MCI inspections ) they rarely take class but only take regular salaries, If you are conscious to your duties and regular to duties you will get frustrated in life, where is the law and justice in this country if you expose and ask for justice you become a rebel. I came across several professors who have never taken a class and they are post graduate examiners, However we cannot blame MCI for everything it is we the Doctors made this profession like this. The ills in this profession more than what we know. However we have laws to control poor people but what about white collar cheats.

Dr Mayur Trivedi  on April 26th, 2010

pril 26, 2000

If Ketan Desai has misused his powers vested in him as a President of MCI, what about the benifectors { Medical Colleges and the Managers of such colleges, Inspectors of MCI) who had had been favoured for a very long period?
What about the highly talked Medical Tourism in India? How many patients would coume to India ( to die in the hands of doctors who pass from tainted colleges?
How many patients will be killed ( forget about how many have been killed)by doctors who have passed from Medical Colleges not having sufficient staff, facilities and indoor/outdoor patients?
Sincerely.

doctorrao  on April 30th, 2010

Out country needs a better health policy if every substandard individual becomes doctor and treat us what will happen to us. Today we are worse than guinea pigs for animals there are animal activists for humans no one to protect our interests.It is not only MCI many of us have become corrupt to get easy money.

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Gautam  on April 17th, 2011

Nice reading, it was a change factor that i came across your site. . .would love if we had one uncomplicated website. Try http://www.medpanel.in. Hope to see more articles soon.